Saving Mr. Banks

Saving Mr. Banks is a biopic of John Lee Hancock from the year 2013. The screenplay is based on the two -week negotiations for the film rights to Mary Poppins, which led Walt Disney in Hollywood with the author PL Travers in 1961.

The film premiered at the BFI London Film Festival on October 20, 2013 premiere. The German theatrical release was on March 6, 2014.

Action

Early as 1940, Walt Disney had promised his daughters, the film adaptation of the novel Mary Poppins. After trying for twenty years to get the film rights, the agent of the author may eventually be persuaded because of the existing financial difficulties in which it is located, to it but at least try. So travel Pamela " P. L. " Travers reluctantly in 1961 to Los Angeles, because she sees in Walt Disney only a producer of animated films, which they detested. A film about Mary Poppins may in their opinion not contain animated elements. It started two weeks of hard work, in which they always introduces new requirements to be followed almost impossible. Walt Disney's desire to fulfill the promise which he hath given his daughters, lets give him time and again. Even the color red should not happen again.

While working on the film, it always comes back to flashbacks to the childhood of PL Travers, from which it is increasingly clear how closely the story of Mary Poppins Travers is interwoven with her ​​own childhood.

An important element of the film is the encounter with the driver Ralph, who had been assigned to her for the duration of their stay. His enthusiasm for the work of Walt Disney and his friendliness and openness they can hardly bear first. Restrained by her side - - Friendship But when she learns more from life Ralphs, a developed.

After two weeks of hard work with screen writer Don Dagradi and the composers Richard and Robert Sherman, which already caused many elements of the film, decides PL Travers, return to London, and Walt Disney are the Treaty transfer of film rights, which she had always carried around with him back - not signed. For she had heard that in the movie but now animated elements should be included - an absolute absurdity.

Disney is taken aback when he finds in the hotel bill for their stay, that the name PL Travers is a stage name, and researched the past of the author. He finds that her name is Helen Goff and grew up not in England, but in Australia. My father's name is Travers Goff. Disney decides to travel to London himself, because he believes they now better understand: He realizes that Mr. Banks, the father in the book Mary Poppins, in fact, represents the father of the author. It comes to a long and intense conversation after the PL Travers finally the Treaty transfer of film rights signs without looking at the contents of the film to take further influence.

In 1964, the premiere of the film will be announced. Many celebrities are invited - but not P. L. Travers. Walt Disney was afraid of a scandal, because much of what the author had initially rejected, but now appeared on in the film. But she sits down unceremoniously on the plane and appears unannounced in the studios. It does so as if the invitation was lost, and provides a hurry for an accommodation and an appropriate place for the premiere. When she goes there, she worked with many of the cartoon characters from the Disney movies, what they deter initially, but then they can be guided to the movies of Mickey Mouse.

During the premiere of her becomes clear that the film's fantasy world that her father had given her in her childhood, preserved and help provide even adults. The hardness, they had over other people shown and by which it tries to protect itself, faded, and she says goodbye to the people who you meet in the first two weeks, with a warmth that this never seen her had.

Background

  • Since the early 1940s, Walt Disney tried to the film rights to PL Travers ' book " Mary Poppins ". It took 20 years until he was able to secure the rights.
  • " Mary Poppins " was then nominated 13 times for an Academy Award and has won five trophies: for Julie Andrews as best actress, effects, editing, music, and Best Original Song. Nominated the musical was also in the Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay.
  • Actor Jason Schwartzman is exactly as old as songwriter Richard Sherman with 32 years of 1961, - the year, playing in the "Saving Mr. Banks ". And his film partner B. J. Novak is 34 the same age as Richards brother Robert Sherman.
  • "Saving Mr. Banks " is the first joint project of the film Step Brothers John Schwartzman (camera) and Jason Schwartzman ( Richard Sherman). Her father is the producer and lawyer Jack Schwartzman, Jason's mother - and John's stepmother - the Oscar - nominated actress Talia Shire. Francis Ford Coppola is John and Jason Schwartzman's uncle.
  • The film was shot entirely in and around Los Angeles. Among the venues include the Disneyland in Anaheim, TCL Chinese Theatre (formerly Grauman's ) in Hollywood, where in 1964 the premiere of " Mary Poppins " was held, in 1940 officially opened the Disney Studios in Burbank ( here was also the entire movie of 1964 ), and the 10,000 -acre Big Sky Ranch in Simi Valley, the " doubled for " the Australian landscape of the early 20th century.
  • Richard Sherman, who wrote the " Mary Poppins " classics together with his brother Robert, acted in "Saving Mr. Banks " as a consultant.
  • The film crew had access to a large archive: The Walt Disney Family Museum in the Presidio, San Francisco, opened its doors in October 2009. Among the initiators include Disney's daughter Diane Disney Miller and his grandson, Walter ED Miller. The museum is operated by the nonprofit Walt Disney Family Foundation.
  • The Walt Disney Archives provided the actors and the production team with over six hours of audio recordings of story meetings with PL Travers and the " Mary Poppins " creative team. In the recordings, which were on Travers ' desire between the 5th and 10th April 1961 is to hear how the writer songwriters Richard M. and Robert B. Sherman, screenwriter Don Dagradi and Bill servers, Head of Story development ( the Travers also during their stay supervised), manifesting their opinions.

Awards

The jury of the German Film and Media Review (FBW ) has granted the film the predicate " particularly valuable".

Nominations

  • Golden Globe Awards 2014 Best Actress - Drama (Emma Thompson)
2013 in film Alison Owen Film score B. J. Novak Ruth Wilson (actress) Sherman Brothers
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